creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants …-language learner (ELL) student population and over 60 % of immigrants are from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research …

Immigrants' employment status has worsened during the Great Recession in Spain. How much of this worsening is due to … compare the employment trajectories of different cohorts of immigrants and natives and find that those who arrived before the … work as Spanish unemployment rates skyrocketed. In addition, although many immigrants who arrived in Spain between 2000 and …

child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … indicate that up to 21% of the gap between income ranks of second-generation immigrants and natives is related to differences … in parental background. Once we control for education, family, residence and industry related choices, differences in the …

We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour … Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to … paternal, and stronger effects on sons than daughters. Using IV to simultaneously model the endogeneity of parental education …

follows an instrumental variable (IV) approach, instrumenting parental education with years of compulsory schooling. I find … some evidence of a causal relationship between parents' and children's education. The magnitude of the estimated effect is … large: an additional year of parental education raises the child's education by 0.44 of a year. I also find that maternal …

, are high. This persistence is correlated with high returns to education, relatively low progressivity in public … investments in education, and inequality of opportunity. An index of inequality of opportunity (including dimensions beyond an …, circumstances explain below 15 % of the observed variance in education, in Chile, they amount to almost half the explained variance …

tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or …

This paper evaluates how the July 2005 London terrorist attacks affected Muslim teenagers' education plans and … continue in full-time education. I examine panel data on educational attitudes from the "Next Steps" Survey in England and use … negatively affected the education plans of Muslims, but not those of any other major religious group. The probability of planning …

Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self …-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many … upward economic mobility among low-skilled immigrants. More broadly prioritizing high-skilled immigrants may prove to be more …